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Oops … Britney and Jamie Lynn Spears Are Fighting Over again

Britney and Jamie Lynn Spears. Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos by Getty Images and Shutterstock

Update, January xvi, 4 p.m.: Britney Spears has posted a new statement to Twitter, appearing to qualify her previous accusations confronting her sis Jamie Lynn Spears. "Jamie Lynn…I don't recall your volume is almost me at all…I said some harsh things because yous patently injure me past the things you are making upwards about me!" Britney wrote. In regards to her prior argument alleging that Jamie Lynn is a "scum person," Britney clarified, "I could accept sworn I said 'but y'all're non.'" Britney besides acknowledged that while her sister has "worked difficult for the life you lot have and you accept done amazing," both of them should "have to agree to the fact that the family unit has never been remotely as hard on you as they take been on me!" Britney goes on to reiterate that she was mistreated for years by her family, and in particular, her father, Jamie Spears. She added that while she was staying involuntarily at a psychiatric facility, Jamie Lynn "would take days to answer" to her calls. "Say whatsoever you want to say, merely know I do know your existent heart more than anyone!" Britney concluded. "It's your life and yous deserve a beautiful life!"

Update, January fourteen, 4 p.1000.: Britney Spears returned to Twitter to extend her feud with her sis, Jamie Lynn Spears, into a second day. "congrats babe 👏🏼! You've stooped to a whole new level of Low," Britney wrote in a message posted to Twitter. The singer went on to respond to Jamie Lynn's allegation that Britney trapped the two of them in a room with a knife when they were children because "she didn't feel rubber." Jamie Lynn details the story in her upcoming memoir, Things I Should Take Said, and spoke about information technology in a January 12 interview on Nightline. In her Twitter response, Britney denied the claim. "NOW and only NOW I practice know only a scum person would brand up such things about someone ….," she wrote. "I'1000 really very confused nigh yous making that up because information technology's honestly not like yous at all !!!! Effectually the kids ???? Jamie Lynn, seriously ??? Come on !!!"

We're just days into Jamie Lynn Spears'due south printing tour for her upcoming book, Things I Should Have Said, and the things are now being said — many of them, in fact, between Jamie Lynn and her older sister Britney across social-media platforms. Jamie Lynn gave her first interview about Things on Good Morning America on January 12, in which she claimed she tried to assistance Britney become out of her conservatorship and "was happy" when information technology ended. This was all despite Britney's past criticism of her amongst the conservatorship fight. Then, the next day, Britney got a fever, per a note posted to Twitter. And so, while sick, she decided to spotter her sister'due south interview. "And it was actually kind of nice having a fever and then high cause I had to surrender to non caring," Britney wrote in a message posted to Twitter. (She's since recovered, don't worry!)

After lamenting her fever, Britney went on to respond to two details from her sis's interview. For one, she disputed Jamie Lynn's claim that, in Britney's words, her "behavior was out of control." Britney said Jamie Lynn "was never around me much" at that signal, and claimed her sister "wants to sell a book about me at my expense 🤔📚." Britney so addresses her past criticism of Jamie Lynn's tribute performance at the 2017 Radio Disney Music Awards. "I know it may sound like a dizzy matter to nearly people but I wrote a lot of my songs and my sister was the baby," Britney wrote. "She never had to piece of work for anything. Everything was ever given to her !!!!" She went on to say she had been planning a similar show of remixes, and that performance "did ruin my dreams." "Hope your book does well, Jamie Lynn !!!!" Britney declared.

Later that night, Britney's author sister, who presumably did not have a fever, responded with a message posted to Instagram that she called the "last thing I desire to be doing." "Quite bluntly, the things being said are absolutely not the truth, and I have to clarify that," Jamie Lynn wrote, alluding to death threats to her family and her daughter's confusion over Britney'due south messages. Jamie Lynn went on to say her book was her having "to set the record straight myself in order to protect mine and my family's well beingness." She connected, "I hate to burst my sister'due south chimera, only my book is non about her. I tin can't help that I was built-in a Spears likewise, and that some of my experiences involve my sis. I've worked hard since before I was even a teenager, and I've built my career in spite of just existence someone'due south little sister."

While adding well wishes for Britney, Jamie Lynn concluded by declaring that "there are no sides, and I don't desire drama," despite publishing a social-media argument nearly setting a tape straight. There's all the same four more than days 'til Things I Should Have Said comes out, leaving aplenty room for more (non-)drama.

Oops … Britney and Jamie Lynn Spears Are Fighting Again